5 July 2010 A Stop Motion Story Graffiti artist Blu has released his biggest and most ambitious film to date.
25 June 2010 Social Signaling in Connective Words The subtle encoding of social relationships in grammar.
25 June 2010 Floating Farms on Inner City Waterways A novel solution to the lack of space for food cultivation in modern cities.
23 June 2010 Fun is no longer a priority What US Game Developers Need to Know about Free-to-Play in China.
10 June 2010 Some People Say Weasel Words Are Great Wikipedia’s unsurpassed synthesis of inanity and insanity.
30 May 2010 Most Programmers Are Stupid “The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are.”
26 May 2010 Will Diaspora Fail? The massive public anticipation and scrutiny of their activities is not going to be particularly helpful.
14 May 2010 A Simple Model for Sharing How to leverage the power of personal websites to share private information with your direct personal contacts.
10 May 2010 Our Emergent Panopticon A slide down the slippery slope towards a totalitarian surveillance state.
9 May 2010 Creative Space “There’s a tyranny of the machine that seems to interfere with big-picture thought”
8 May 2010 Privacy is a Distraction Concerns about privacy are a subset of what we should be concerned about.
5 May 2010 Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga The Amiga line of computers had a significant influence on many graphic artists and musicians moving into digital production.
5 May 2010 The No Logo Decade How the iconic story of the anti-corporate movement became a handbook for corporate marketing.
28 April 2010 Unsolicited Architecture Using design to provoke public debate about the future of cities.
19 April 2010 Clusters and Flows of Data: The Twitter Way The playing-field of Twitter annotations and the challenge to the developer community.
14 April 2010 Prospects for Paper Architecture The future for architects is not the future of architecture.
22 March 2010 The Committee To Save The World The story of Obama’s “Inside Man” and the context of the financial crisis.
22 March 2010 Reconsuming Ideals Portigal Consulting talk about the analog human and the digital machine.
15 March 2010 Disintegrating Digg Fragments, factions, and turf warfare may force Digg to accommodate greater personalization of content.
12 March 2010 Livecoding the musical apocalypse Algorithms are thoughts, chainsaws are tools, and the triumph of the cyborg composer.
10 March 2010 All Your Apps Are Belong To Us The EFF examines the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, and concludes that Apple is acting as a jealous and arbitrary feudal lord.
3 March 2010 Experiment Driven Development A new skillset for interactive designers, who must now take direct evidence into account with every design variation that affects user flows.
1 March 2010 Mad Lib Forms The only “right” approach is tweaking a design based on a feedback loop of observation.
1 March 2010 The worst condition Did Saddam unconsciously model aspects of his regime on science fiction from Western pop culture?
22 February 2010 One way or another How David Bowie and the Grateful Dead predicted the arc of internet influence.
22 February 2010 Fundamentally inconsistent Copyright law is fundamentally inconsistent with the nature of networks.
19 February 2010 Social Traction What makes a website truly great is the way it can influence behavior.
18 February 2010 On The Shoulders of Giants The historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.
16 February 2010 Incentives Invite Abuse Rethink the expectation that people will use a service for that which it is intended.
14 February 2010 To Be a Philosopher Celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causes an existential crisis by quoting a hoax author.
10 February 2010 Apostrophes Illustrate Changing Language As the English language evolves and morphs, there is considerable tension between retaining the humble apostrophe and getting rid of it altogether.
10 February 2010 Both useful and meaningful? On the frequency of Facebook redesigns, and user reactions.
4 February 2010 Supremely Corporate It's perhaps inevitable that a corporation will try to run for congress.
27 January 2010 Apple and America Apple has no civic responsibility or moral obligations, but the citizens of the United States do.
22 January 2010 The Case of the Midnight Note My friends have created a noir themed game, raising funds to help sponsor people to attend Webstock.
20 January 2010 Picture-driven programming Treating the entire visual interface of a program as data input to another program that modifies the original behavior.
16 January 2010 What is Missing from Modern Programming Languages? There’s a lot of important dialogue about the standard features of modern programming languages that hasn’t happened yet.
15 January 2010 Mapping the Global Shipping Network Surprisingly, the global shipping network has never been mapped.
30 November 2009 Concrete Hallucinations There was only one language that everyone in the Tower of Babel spoke... that of money.
24 November 2009 Where a carrot is never just a carrot “If all you can say is ‘fresh from the wholesale market’ then you have to be cheap and open all hours”
24 November 2009 Real Learning We can only learn through crisis and disruption to existing assumptions and patterns of knowledge.
20 November 2009 Volume and Value “If you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good?”
26 October 2009 Windows into the Mind “Just as soon as we begin to hone the ability to communicate through images it is stripped away from us.”
25 October 2009 Berlin Twitter Wall To commemorate 20 Jahre Mauerfall – the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city has launched the Berlin Twitter Wall.
25 October 2009 The Forgotten History of Timezones A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database.
24 October 2009 Ascii Art Diagrams ditaa is a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art into proper bitmap graphics.
15 October 2009 Horizons of the New Berlin Corporate zones of redevelopment and the juxtaposition of disparate world-views.
8 October 2009 Because it's Unix Watch the cascade from Ruby is Unix to Python is Unix to Perl is Unix.
19 September 2009 The Decline of American Civility Beyond internet trolling: mutually escalating aggression has become a new norm.
6 September 2009 Hacking Swine Flu How many bits does it take to kill a human? Comparing H1N1 to computer viruses.
3 September 2009 The Difference Between Parkour and Freerunning Beau from one of the top Berlin crews, Urban Idiots, explains.
31 August 2009 Software Design Folklore A survey of over 3000 developers, regarding their approach to OO software design.
26 August 2009 Kreuzberg Kosmonaut This rather large fellow is floating across the side of a building in central Kreuzberg.
23 August 2009 The Walls of Schlesische Straße Snapshots of the epic wall art at Schlesische Straße, East of Berlin’s Wrangelkiez.
22 August 2009 Why? Oh _why? _why has gone. Left the intarwebs. And in the process, he tore down the house, and leveled the garden.
21 August 2009 Only Magic to Those with Inadequate Understanding A quote from Raganwald: “The correct response is not calling arbitrary features ‘magic’. It’s programming. That’s all.”
9 July 2009 Flocks of Black Swans Many programmers and those with ears tuned in to murmurs from the dark side of the finance industry will have heard the recent story involving Goldman Sachs.
4 July 2009 Becoming Cyclic Humans lack cohesive understanding of the cultural and environmental flow-on effects of industrial and consumerist technology.
1 July 2009 Rap Confronting the Record Biz A short history of rap songs that confront the nature of commercial rap and the record industry.
26 June 2009 Independence: Making Money From Music How an indie musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter says it all.
25 June 2009 Respecting Creativity? ‘Respecting Creativity’ encourages teachers to introduce the concept of intellectual property and the debate surrounding copyright issues to a classroom discussion.
23 June 2009 Wink of a Cold War The U.S. Department of Energy has admitted that the era of cheap oil is over.
19 June 2009 Alice and Kev The world of Alice and Kev is an experiment by Robin Burkinshaw, playing a homeless family in The Sims 3.
16 June 2009 Get Well: Chris Knox Kiwi music legend and humorist Chris Knox has suffered a major stroke. We all hope he’s ok.
16 June 2009 Rands Hits a Home-Run Software industry zealots focus far too much effort on debating methodology for methodologies sake.
7 June 2009 Robots & Visual Programmers It’s great to see research like Visual Programming Environments For Kids.
1 June 2009 Code is Not Inevitable Perhaps we ought to reconsider the idea that software be built from code at all.
31 May 2009 Gateway Drugs are Abject Nonsense People unwilling to face the wider social problems of their society will always look to externalize the issue in an object.
10 March 2009 Public Servitude I recently heard of a situation where a project was completed ahead of schedule, on time and under budget. Much of this was that the person running it didn't bother waiting for pointless meetings…